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Ahava Goldman, CPA is a senior technical manager with the American Institute of CPA’s (AICPA) Audit and Attest Standards team. She is the staff liaison for the Auditing Standards Board and supports their standard-setting activities. Ahava staffs the Clarity Task Force which supports the ASB with its Clarity Project to revise its standards to make them easier to read, understand and apply. As senior technical manager, she also helps develop nonauthoritative professional guidance. Before joining the Audit and Attest Standards team, Ms. Goldman was a senior manager on the AICPA’s Examinations Team where she was responsible for the content and development of all sections of the Uniform CPA Examination and provided staff support to senior-level committees and task forces focusing on examination policies, content, and computerization. Before joining the AICPA, she was a supervisor at DDK & Company, manager at Ernst & Young LLP, and senior accountant at Kipnis & Karchmer. She graduated magna cum laude from Stern College of Yeshiva University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.